Russia 1905 By the end of 1904, the Russian economy was strained by the country's involvement in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) and from social disruptions persisting since the late nineteenth century. In January 1905 the head of one of the...

Bloody Sunday (Russian: Кровавое воскресенье) was an incident on 22 January [O.S. 9 January] 1905 in St. Petersburg, Russia, where unarmed, peaceful demonstrators marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II were gunned down by...

The New York Film Society of Lincoln Center continues its month-long series of reappraisals of gifted—and even honored-in-their-own-time—film icons, with a four-film revival May 25 and May 26 of John Schlesinger’s British-made Billy Liar (1963) and Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), and his American-made Midnight Cowboy...

A former state trooper surrendered Thursday on a murder charge in the 1965 shooting death of a black man during a civil rights protest, a killing that led to the "Bloody Sunday" march and the passage of the Voting Rights Act.Former trooper James Bonard Fowler,...

A fatal shooting by a state trooper that helped inspire the march from Selma in 1965 and the "Bloody Sunday" protest that preceded it will get a fresh look next week by a special grand jury.Former State Trooper James Bonard Fowler has insisted for years...

More than a thousand people gathered Sunday to commemorate the 1965 "Bloody Sunday" voting rights march _ and remarked how the original protest paved the way for modern-day candidates to break political barriers.With a marching band leading the way, participants retraced the steps to the...